I write, these memoirs for my soul
I write, these memoirs for my woes
I fight, my demons and my foes
That’s why my eyes, impure from blood and gold
From Memoirs by Moglera Doe Boy
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Penn Live Arts presented Rennie Harris’s “Losing My Religion” last week as part of its America Unfinished Series, marking the country’s semiquincentennial. The finale to his three-year residency, it opens with earsplitting whistles, the kind you hear at an ICE protest. Its dark and mercurial essence is an emphatic and passionate statement fit for our times.
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